Presidential promises come and go, but local real estate and
water policy issues are forever.
Will the new mortgage assistance proposals reach the consumers
who need help most?
And what about water policy -- once primarily a Western concern
but now, thanks to rapid population growth and real estate
development, also a worry elsewhere?
How should state legislatures making water policy balance
agricultural and environmental needs, and the demand for the purity
of what comes out of faucets?
These are some of the questions that the National Conference of
State Legislatures' Spring Forum, now going on in the District, will ...